TO MY FELLOW CHRISTIANS: THE FLAG IS AN IDOL!

Flag Or The Cross? ^

[LalahLand]

I am curious to find out why some of my fellow Christians still recite the pledge of allegiance. When you "pledge your allegiance" to an inanimate object you are basically worshipping that object. Am I missing something here? Why do some of us choose to salute and break one of the most important commandments? Shouldn't our pledge of allegiance be to God, and not a piece of cloth? The pledge of allegiance to the flag basically states that we will (blindly) support the flag and the actions of our government without question. That is the very essence of what idolatry is all about! Please check out the attached article.

idol SYLLABICATION: i·dol PRONUNCIATION: AUDIO: dl KEY NOUN: 1a. An image used as an object of worship. b. A false god. 2. One that is adored, often blindly or excessively.

idolatry SYLLABICATION: i·dol·a·try PRONUNCIATION: AUDIO: -dl-tr KEY NOUN: Inflected forms: pl. i·dol·a·tries 1. Worship of idols. 2. Blind or excessive devotion to something.

[Jewels1091]

That's your opinion...not fact.

[Jhoffa_]

Perhaps you forgot the "Under God" part of the pledge..

Under, below, beneath, inferior to.. Less than with regard to..

You know, "under" God.

[KneelBeforeZod]

ha ha. since this thread was so long, I figured the poster must be an old timer, and hadn't been banned.

I was about to say "lucky for you you aren't new...or you'd be banned by now"

[KneelBeforeZod]

[TaxRelief]

This thread should always be around. The best laugh I've had in a week!!

[strela]

Quite so. I just love playing with 'em.

[Maedhros]

bump

[weegee]

LalahLand signed up 2003-03-15.
This account has been banned.

[Moby Grape]

I am Christian, but do not subscribe to the Jimmy Carter buffet style (I'll take a little of this, and a little of that...just what suits me) clap-trap that you do....YOU worship your LIBERAL ideology.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

300 something posts and was there a reply from lalahland?

[Moby Grape]

What a fitting name: "lalaland"!!!!!! Some people (and sometimes I am included I suppose) just invite a bloody nose.

[ohioman]

With your head up your arse, how could you possibly think outside the box.

[Moby Grape]

What a fitting name: "lalaland"!!!!!! Some people (and sometimes I am included I suppose) just invite a bloody nose.

[Frapster]

I sacrifice goats to it too.

[The_Reader_David]

The banned poster LalahLand is not an idiot, even if he is a heretic. He simply follows the usual protestant method of assuming that the English translation of the Holy Scriptures he has at hand is an axiom system whose terms are defined in a standard English dictionary. Reasoning that way, a reasonable case can be made that the American flag is an idol (though it doesn't seem to be a graven image (eidolon) of anything in heaven or on earth, unless you count the stars).

Of course, as an Orthodox Christian, I know perfectly well that the Holy Scriptures must be approached differently, and that neither the flag, nor even the images of Presidents or Emperors on coinage, nor the Holy Icons are idols.

[berserker]

Which is why, when people burn a flag, some in the U.S. call it desecrating the flag.

[Mustang]

Go back to your "home"land....you're a putz!